His century and ours
It is a book of which he himself wanted to be the subject.
A confined book, written day by day for twenty years by Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne in the tower of his castle at the gates of Bergerac and Saint-Émilion, in his library where he engraved Latin expressions on the large blackened beams .
Reading these cheerful and bustling pages, wonderfully contemporary despite their 400 years, we are sometimes overcome by a burst of medieval laughter, sometimes seized by the depth of a universal meditation.
It addresses themes as eternal and familiar as friendship, identity, loneliness, raising children.
But if
The Essays
particularly speak to us today, it is because our sensitivity corresponds to that of the century of Montaigne, this violent 16th century crossed by religious wars, a period of intense doubt, disrupted by the discovery of the New World.
A time of crisis that echoes ours, marked by the return of history and skepticism...
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